The Fourth Session of the 11th National People's Congress holds its closing meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, March 14, 2011. (Xinhua/Liu Jiansheng)
For instance, the government should increase the supply of affordable housing to meet the needs of low-income people.
The 12th Five-Year Plan noted that there still exists the global trend toward peace, development and cooperation, and the overall international environment is beneficial to China's peaceful development.
In the meantime, the international environment is getting more complicated as the impact of global financial crisis lingers, the world's economic growth remains sluggish, global competition intensifies, and protectionism surges, according to the plan.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi recently said that China would have a broader road for peaceful development if it develops in a way that takes into consideration both the domestic and international situations and well grasp the interaction relationship between scientific and peaceful development.
Sun Zhe, an expert on Sino-U.S. relations of Tsinghua University, said that there is no longer any doubt that many countries are beneficiaries of China's peaceful development.
China needs to enhance the outside world's understanding of and trust in it through economic cooperation, cultural exchanges and various other means, he said.
"Mutual trust between China and other countries will deepen with an increasingly open and confident China and closer exchanges between China and the outside world. I believe a broader road awaits China's peaceful development," Sun said.
At the closing meeting, the NPC deputies also voted to approve the work reports of the NPC Standing Committee, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
The Implementation of the 2010 Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the 2011 Plan for National Economic and Social Development were approved as well.
